All About Math Olympiad Training & Questions

[abhcbl]

I was trying to do a quick check on my son who is now in K1 … got him to try out the MO for Junior … and was surprise that he could do about 8 qns in test 1. He sort of good in math and science but his language skill were not good enough for him to really learn by himself.


Also I created a simple game for him to learn how to solve basic simultaneous equation, and he learn that in 1 day … he can now solve qns like "there are 15 more apples than oranges, and altogether there are 67 apples and oranges", and he had also complete the level 1 of Fan’s Math Processing. I look at most the math books available in popular, but they all look very dry (even I won’t enjoy them when I was young). Wondering anyone know of any good games/toys or things that could help a child to learn math in a much more fun way.

I hope to let him learn in a fun way … more about multiplication/division/fraction and time/speed/distant concept.

[andante]

Hi,

May I know whether there is any means to find the solution (not just answer key) for the SMOPS sample question ?

Thank you.

[andante]

Hi.

Is there any way to obtain the solution (not answer key) for SMOPS sample questions ?

Thank you.

[FrekiWang]

andante:

Hi,

May I know whether there is any means to find the solution (not just answer key) for the SMOPS sample question ?

Thank you.

I suppose you can just try GOOGLE it, but most likely you won't be able to get the full solution to all questions. Perhaps you can just post some of the problems which you are interested in knowing the full solution so that I can provide some help.

[CoffeeCat]

andante:

Hi.

Is there any way to obtain the solution (not answer key) for SMOPS sample questions ?

Thank you.

I believe you are referring to the sample questions on the HCI SMOPS website. The first one is the actual 2007 smops paper. You can buy the official booklet from centres like mathshub or learninginteractive i think.
The second one should be the actual 2009 paper i believe. I don't think hci published it. But I remembered AEP (Affinity Education Place) once mentioned they are selling it...

[Andrew Lee]

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[sleepy]

Hi


Where can we find sample questions or past years question for SASMO?

Thanks!

[CoffeeCat]

sleepy:

Hi


Where can we find sample questions or past years question for SASMO?

Thanks!

By SASMO you mean the one related to noble education?
http://www.noble-education.com/contests.html

[Maths Hub]

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Hi Andrew Lee,

for this type of question, we will encourage our students to start from small and look for a pattern.

This is how it goes:
9 x 8 = 72 (Sum of digits = 9)
99 x 88 = 8712 (Sum of digits = 9 x 2 = 18 )
999 x 888 = 887112 (Sum of digits = 9 x 3 = 27)
9999 x 8888 = 88871112 (Sum of digits = 9 x 4 = 36)
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For the case with 2001 digits of 9 and 8,

999....9 x 888...8 = 888...87111...12 (Sum of digits = 9 x 2001 = 18009)